From Hatred to Passionate Love Amelia Hart

Chapter 725 We Can't Be Lovers

"Then what you love is my status, not me as a person," Penelope sighed softly. "If someone else were born into the Mitchell family and became the Mitchell family's heiress, you would love her too."

Brandon was slightly taken aback, then spoke in disappointment, "Penelope, why do you deny my love like this?"

He had held onto this love for so long, it had taken up a quarter of his life.

"I'm just expressing my true feelings. You say you love me and will only marry me because I am the Mitchell family's heiress, your childhood companion, the person you promised. If someone else had my status, you would love her the same way."

Penelope remembered she had also asked Kelvin why he loved her. Although Kelvin wasn't good at expressing emotions and was a man of few words, he did articulate his reasons for loving her.

He said he was moved because of her strength in surviving through desperate times, her determination and refusal to give up, and her courage to be herself. He saw a different attitude towards life in her, which attracted him.

This was Kelvin's answer, and Penelope always remembered it. But now, when she asked Brandon why he loved her, Brandon repeatedly said it was because she was her, the person he promised to marry in childhood.

"We can't go back, Brandon," Penelope sighed. "Fate had it that I got lost from the Mitchell family and went missing for over twenty years. Our bond was broken from that moment."

"We can be lifelong friends, even family, but not lovers." She made it clear.

When she first learned about Brandon's love for her, she always dodged and avoided it, not knowing how to face it. Now she realized that avoiding it wasn't the solution.

It was better to make it clear to avoid further misunderstandings. Penelope still needed Brandon as a friend; he was also a crucial person in her life.

rejected me time and again," Brandon's eyes were noticeably bloodshot. "You refused my request to spare Isabella. Now,

never found the right moment

to end, you still love Kelvin, don't you? Besides him, there's no room for anyone else in

admitted, "Yes, I love

many things to hurt you before? Penelope, have you forgotten why you faked your

"I haven't forgotten..."

forgotten!" Brandon interrupted her. "Aren't you afraid that Kelvin will

"Kelvin is not the same Kelvin as

cold and ruthless, but he reserved all his softness for her. Penelope had noticed every bit of

full of sarcasm and bitterness. "Penelope, I knew it. I knew that once you brought Lucy back to LA, you would never leave again." "You can't bear to leave Kelvin. You love him, and Kelvin won't easily let you go again. You have a child together, you have feelings for each other. He turned gray overnight worrying

in bringing Lucy back because I wanted Lucy to recover, because I

took it upon myself to bring Sam to LA, let him stay with the Walker family,

did I get? Just a 'thank you' from you!" No matter how calm, graceful,

long and giving so much, he lost completely, the worst

"I don't remember." His years of help were met with

been waiting, holding onto that sliver of hope. He thought that after doing so

fulfilling their childhood promise and becoming

loved Kelvin. She loved the man who threw her into a mental

a loss; she had never seen